Re: [Idr] [internet-drafts@ietf.org: I-D Action: draft-haas-idr-extended-experimental-00.txt]

Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> Tue, 01 November 2016 18:38 UTC

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Jeffrey Haas wrote:
> There's a larger conversation to be had about proper stewardship and use of
> code points of all sorts, but path attributes have our attention for the
> moment.
> 
> A quick draft for consideration and to motivate discussion.

this is an interesting approach and I like it.  Despite the warnings in
the document, vendors are likely to want to do vendor-specific things on
a permanent basis, but this is probably unavoidable and not necessarily
a bad thing either - there are plenty of other situations where
vendor-specific attributes are used to good effect.

I'd like to see this idea progress.

Nick